Every so often it is a good idea to go clean out liked Facebook pages that you no longer want to follow. This also gives you a chance to see all those pages and figure out if you are even seeing their post in your stream.

If a page is inactive you can just unlike it and not have it cluttering your list.

Once you do a search and pull up the list of liked Facebook pages, you may also notice that some pages are still active, but you never see them in your home stream. That can be easily fixed by just engaging on a few of the pages post and that will let Facebook know, to show you more of their post.

I suggest you clean out your list at least once a year.

This search will only take a minute and depending on how many pages you need to engage with will determine how long this cleanup will take.

I bet you have been looking for creative ways to get better reach for your Facebook page and many times when we see something working for others, we then just jump in…but should you?

Facebook makes it hard to get reach for pages and that means you need to buy ads. But, there is someone who always finds a way to game the system.

Facebook Live videos have the best reach of all post on a Facebook Business page and therefore it will be used in any way possible for that boost. Even in ways that may go against Facebook TOS.

The polls you may have seen are just 1 way that people are gaming the system and as we know, Facebook does NOT like it. Although they have laid down the rules from the beginning, they don’t always enforce things until they are ready and that is the case with Live Video.

In this video we talk about a Facebook update where they say they will be enforcing the TOS and putting the kabash on some of the ways people are gaming the system.

If you have taken time to build your page on any platform, you need to understand the risk involved when going against the rules.

People have really picked up on using Facebook Live video to get their message out, but they wanted more and Facebook is stepping up to give it to them.

Just talking to a camera can get a bit old. It is nice when you have the option to collaborate with someone to broaden your reach and message, but that can be hard especially if your platform of choice is Facebook Live.

Well, now Facebook is going to allow you to add another person into the video. This will make it easier for people who may not feel very comfortable just talking to a camera to finally get the chance to do live video.

Facebook has started testing midroll ads in native videos as they said they would. Let me just say, it wasn’t pretty.

Back in April 2017, Facebook talked about putting ads in Live Stream videos and the casually mentioned adding them to native videos. Now, I seldom watch a livestream on Facebook, so if they have placed any ads on them, I don’t know. But, I have not heard anyone mention it as of yet.

However, I saw an ad in native videos for myself, so we know that is rolling out. Here are some of my thoughts as to the ad I saw and what you can expect to see soon.

While I do understand that video creators need to make some money, I see a lot of issues with this plan…I talk about some of those in the post with the announcement above. One way to get people to be more willing to freeboot or steal videos is to reward them with money! Which is just what will happen if Facebook can’t get their shit together on a proper content ID system and a stable way to have your stolen videos taken down. Guess we will see how this all turns out, but I think it will be a mess, at least for now.

Facebook live has taken off and many people are using it to get their message out. It has mostly grown because it is easy to use and it has the best reach for business pages, now Facebook will use these videos to make some money.

In this video I talk about who will benefit from having the ads and why I think putting ads on a live stream could be scary as hell. You won’t see me advertising on any live stream unless I personally know the creator!

What will you hear in this video –

Where will the video add be placed? How long does your Facebook Live need to be to have ads? How long are the freakin ads going to be? Can the live streamer make money when an ad is on their video? Why I think advertisers are crazy to put an advertisement on a live stream! How will advertisers pick which live stream their ad appears on?

3:00 What other videos will be getting Facebook ads? Oh boy, do I see another big problem here! Hint – I do NOT like freebooters! I am pretty tight on copyright!

4:32 Instagram is also looking at adding ads in the story lines! How much can you make when Instagram puts ads in the stories? LOL!

By the way, this video was originally a Facebook live and I know any video there is somewhat useless after the fact, so it is now a searchable video!